Residency | 2025
Echoes of Our Mothers
From
May 7 to June 1, 2025
Duration
3 and a half weeks
Location
Phey, Ladakh
Number of Residencies
2 from J&K
3 from Ladakh (Leh and Kargil)
Acommodation
Accommodation for participants residing outside Leh District, Ladakh
Facilitator
Alyen Leeachum Foning
Regional Artistic Mentor
Jigmet Angmo
This interdisciplinary workshop and residency emerging from a confluence of experiences—personal, cultural, and collective— invites women artists, makers, and storytellers to engage in an exploration of identity, memory, and belonging. Through shared creation, the participants are invited to revisit the layered dimensions and complexities of women's lives, transforming personal and collective narratives into tactile art.
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Curated by Aakriti Chandervanshi and facilitated by Alyen Leeachum Foning, the artists shall interrogate how artmaking can reclaim the sacredness of the feminine experience, honoring the seen and unseen labors of care and resilience. By engaging with materials, crafts, and experimental practices, the collective shall create a living archive of memory—where textiles, sound, text, visual and mixed media amplify historically unheard voices and reimagine histories. In this space, we seek to forge a collective vision of femininity that transcends borders, leaving a shared mark on a tapestry of resilience and reimagined futures.
Open to women from the region of Ladakh and J&K. We invite individuals who have been practicing for a minimum of 2 years and their portfolio and resume reflects so.​
Any further queries or clarifications can be sent to us at achiassociationindia@gmail.com.
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Curator
Aakriti Chandervanshi
Application Deadline
April 20, 2025
Themes
Identity, Memory, and Belonging
Themes Include
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Memory as material: Crafting tactile memoirs of lived experience
Reclaiming the sacred feminine through art and ritual
Intergenerational dialogue and shared histories
Environment, home, and the politics of belonging
Material alchemy: Uniting traditional crafts and contemporary art
Opportunities:
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Residency will act as a living archive, where textiles, sound, text, and mixed-media works become vessels for memory.
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Mentorship from Artists from the Pan Himalayan region.
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Resources shared in text, oral and visual mediums to reimagine tradtional crafts and contemporary practices.
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Culmination of the Residency would be an Exhibition opportunity.
Application Process:
Materials required: Concept note, Resume, Portfolio
Portfolio: This can consist of any medium depending on the nature of your work/engagement. Please carefully curate and present your work in any way you choose, as either a 5 page PDF or a 2 min video.
Candidates will be shortlisted after which Interviews will be conducted to determine the incoming group.
Eligibility:
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Artists who have been practicing for minimum 2 years, reflected in their portfolio.
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Body of work reflects past engagement with identity, memory, and belonging.
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We are interested in participants from Ladakh and J&K region.